VentureBeat reports that fewer than 9,000 concurrent players are now playing the game at peak times. Only three months ago that number stood at 30k, while at its peak it reached 45k.

Rival online title Rust has grown from 9k concurrent peak users earlier this year to around 26k last month, while Daybreak's H1Z1 has overcome many of its early problems to pass 1m sales and overtake DayZ's numbers.

Users have lamented the slow update schedule and claimed that even when they do arrive, new content has a habit of causing technical disruption to the existing game. One even went as far to say: Unfortunately this is going to be the poster child for why you don't listen to your community when it comes [to] releasing things too early.”